{"id":205,"date":"2022-04-29T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/?p=205"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:08:30","slug":"is-complicity-evil-the-holocaust-and-its-legacy-guest-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/2022\/04\/29\/is-complicity-evil-the-holocaust-and-its-legacy-guest-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Complicity Evil? The Holocaust and Its Legacy Guest Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NitzanOn Friday, April 29 the Philosophy Department co-sponsored\u00a0a guest lecture with the\u00a0Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\u00a0in observance of Yom HaShoah titled\u00a0<\/span>Is Complicity Evil? The Holocaust and Its Legacy<\/span><\/i>. Nitzan\u00a0Lebovic, Ph.D., professor of history and Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, talked about the ethics of complicity and nonaction, and whether bystanders played an amoral or immoral role in the death of roughly 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nitzan\u00a0Lebovic\u00a0received his B.A. in History and Theory of Literature from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from UCLA. His first book, titled\u00a0<\/span>The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(2013) focuses on the circle around the Lebensphilosophie and anti-Semitic thinker Ludwig Klages. His second book,\u00a0<\/span>Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi<\/span><\/i>, came out in Hebrew in 2015 and was published in June 2019 with the “New Jewish Philosophy and Thought” series at Indiana University Press.\u00a0He\u00a0is also co-editor of\u00a0<\/span>The Politics of Nihilism<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(2014)\u00a0and of\u00a0<\/span>Catastrophes: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(2014), and has authored special issues of\u00a0<\/span>Rethinking History<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Nihilism),\u00a0<\/span>Zmanim<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Religion and Power), and\u00a0<\/span>The New German Critique<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Political Theology),\u00a0<\/span>Comparative Literature and Culture<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Complicity and Dissent), and\u00a0<\/span>Political Theology<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Prophetic Politics).<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr.\u00a0Lebovic\u00a0regularly teaches classes about the history of the Holocaust, the history of total war, introduction to modern Jewish culture, and the history of fascism.\u00a0The university thanks Dr.\u00a0Lebovic\u00a0for speaking with our campus community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, April 29 the Philosophy Department co-sponsored\u00a0a guest lecture with the\u00a0Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\u00a0in observance of Yom HaShoah titled\u00a0Is Complicity Evil? The Holocaust and Its Legacy. Nitzan\u00a0Lebovic, Ph.D., professor of history and Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, talked about the ethics of complicity and nonaction, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1291,"featured_media":206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,34,17],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-evil","tag-holocaust","tag-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}